Syringe recycling scandal

Intravenous news: Modasa’s deadly Hepatitis-B trail has led investigators to a major medical waste recycling racket in Ahmedabad’s own backyard. A whopping 50 tonnes of biological waste, including syringes and needles, which has been impounded, could expose the city and the whole state to the threat of not just Hepatitis-B, but other deadly infections, spread through intravenous treatment.Â

Usually such waste has to be segregated and destroyed in an incinerator. But these were probably to be repackaged and sold.